Per Mertesacker has thrown out a warning shot to his team-mates who may not get more chances for Arsenal thanks to dismal display. The Gunners lost to Nottingham Forest at the weekend to give up their chance to win a fourth FA Cup in only five seasons, losing 4-2 to the lower league side. The […]
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Arsenal retirement announced with academy role arranged
Per Mertesacker will hang up his playing boots in 12 months time, and has been handed the role of Academy Manager at Arsenal from next season. The German international has been the club’s captain for the past year, and is known for his influence on and off the pitch. A role in the Gunners backroom […]
Does Mertesacker still have a role to play at Arsenal?
Per Mertesacker is claimed to be in line for a new contract at present, but what role will he have to play for Arsenal next season? The German international is yet to play a single match this term, having fallen foul of injury in pre-season, and is only nearing a return to action in the coming […]
Arsenal handed TRIPLE injury boost as EPL race heats up
Even though it looks like Arsenal have gotten over the recent deep in form and results, while managing to minimise the damage that the nasty month of November often inflicts, the task of winning the Premier League still looks like it will be a very tough one. Chelsea may be riding their luck but under […]
Why are Arsenal yet to extend Cazorla and others contracts?
Santi Cazorla is out of contract come the end of the season, so why have Arsenal failed to extend his deal? The Spaniard has been one of our most influential players this season, being one of the first names on the teamsheet when fit, and I can think of no reason why he would be […]
Serie A star to replace Arsenal’s BFG in January?
The Arsenal captain and centre back Per Mertesacker is still out of action with the knee injury he picked up in pre-season. The chances are that Arsene Wenger was going to use the summer transfer market to boost our defence anyway but the long term absence of the World Cup winning German made it even […]
Proof that Wenger made a BIG mistake with Arsenal captain?
The good news for the Arsenal club captain Per Mertesacker is that the recovery from the knee injury that the World Cup winning centre back picked up in the pre-season game against Lens is still going well. But with the BFG still a couple of months away from a comeback, the good news for Arsene […]
Mustafi the leader AND defender Arsenal have needed?
One of the criticisms that has been aimed at Arsene Wenger and Arsenal over the last 10 years, while the Gunners never really came close to winning the Premier League title that we all want, was that he failed to recruit the players that Arsenal needed. It was not just that the Frenchman seemed to […]
Why Mustafi can be perfect partner for Arsenal’s Koscielny
One of the big problems for Arsenal and the other Premier League clubs this summer in the transfer market was the fact that the rest of the world seems to see us as huge cash machines. We do have a lot of money thanks to the increasingly huge TV deals but it means that the […]
Why Wenger? Arsenal name injured Mertesacker as club captain
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has named Per Mertesacker as their club’s manager for the new season, despite the fact that he will miss the opening five months of the campaign. Previous captain Mikel Arteta left the club at the end of his contract this summer, before joining Manchester City’s backroom staff as one of Pep […]
Gabriel injury to see Arsenal sign defender this week?
You could not make it up, but for Arsenal fans who have become used to the terrible bad luck of the club on the injury side of things, it was somehow typical that we were hit by another blow. The fact that it was Gabriel, when the defence was already so thinly spread after Mertesacker’s […]
Signs Valencia are ready to sell Mustafi to Arsenal?
I could be wrong about all of this, but it does strike me as a little strange for La Liga’s Valencia to come to England for a couple of pre-season games and bring their German international centre back with them if he really had no chance of featuring in the matches. The fact that Shkodran […]
Has Wenger found the perfect Arsenal captain in Cazorla?
Before he picked up a knee injury in the first Arsenal match of pre-season that forced him to have surgery and miss perhaps the whole first half of the new season, it was being reported that the German centre back Per Mertesacker was going to be given the task of replacing Mikel Arteta as club […]
Arsenal MUST hurry as Man United seek new defender
There have been suggestions that Arsene Wenger may try to get by with the centre back options already available to him in the Arsenal squad, some even going so far as to suggest that he might employ either Francis Coquelin or the young academy star Krystian Bielik at the back despite both of them being […]